Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges since 1925

UM was the first Alabama institution of higher learning to guarantee its teacher-education graduates

Facilities

73 campus buildings (including 3 antebellum structures)

8 residence halls

National Historic District at the center of campus

The Olmsted Brothers—of the landscape architecture firm famous for designing New York’s Central Park, Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Avenue parks, and the grounds of Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina—also developed the first plan for the Montevallo campus. Their basic design ideas are still followed.